RE: [xsl] Variables and HTML

Subject: RE: [xsl] Variables and HTML
From: Pieter Reint Siegers Kort <pieter.siegers@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:18:35 -0600
Thanx for the answer!

> Note that Michael is an editor and WG member so his answers are informed

Yeah, I know that, he's an incredible person

> I'm neither and my answers are guesses

:-) hey, common, we all know that your answers are not guesses - you know a
lot about the subject! 

I must say I learn a lot of things about XSLT since I joined the list. Thanx
again both of you for serving so intensive this list.

Cheers,
<prs/>

-----Original Message-----
From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Viernes, 11 de Marzo de 2005 11:59 a.m.
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [xsl] Variables and HTML



  OK, thanx Michael and David - you both are a complementing answering
machine
  :-)

Note that Michael is an editor and WG member so his answers are informed,
I'm neither and my answers are guesses:-)


  That leaves me with the question why it is not encouragable to couple
  transformers and serializers... may we assume that serializers are kept
out
  of the spec's domain is because serializers are too system specific?


See how one of the faq's of the microsoft implementation is that settings on
xsl:output are ignored. the reason being that msxsl has output a DOM which
has then been (possibly) further processed and then finally serialised using
DOM  methods. XSLT rather encourages this tree-in tree-out view of the XSLT
transform process but if you to output a tree then currently (and perhaps
always) you don't get to control the final serialisation. That's not
necessarily bad, just a consequence of a pipelineing approach to the
transformation, but it does mean that essentially everything about
serialisation in XSLT is slightly second class as the spec wants to allow
conforming systems that never serialise but always just pass on a result
tree as a tree.

David


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